42. Mandukya Upanishad - Karika 3.23 - 3.24 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 3.23 - 3.24

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0:00.0	Let us start with the Mangalachar and the Shanti Mantra.
0:06.0	Om, Bhadram Karinevi Shrinu Yama Deva,
0:13.0	Bhadram Pasha Bhairya Jatra,
0:18.0	Stirae Rangay, Stwaasvagum sastanubhi,
0:23.6	Vyashehemihyaeva
0:26.6	Svhya Indra,io Arishthanymi,
0:40.3	swastin obrihaspatir dhadha.
0:44.3	Om, shantay, shanty, shanty.
0:50.3	So we are studying the Mandukya Karikaika and in the third chapter what Gawdha is trying to do is
0:59.5	prove the truth of non-duality with the help of reasoning.
1:05.7	So he is using reasoning to show that that reality is actually non-dual, which is a difficult
1:14.4	task because we immediately perceive that it is not so.
1:17.7	It seems to be plural.
1:19.2	Plural means there are many, many entities and difference seems to be there everywhere.
1:23.8	And he wants to show that this is an appearance and actually it is non-dual.
1:28.3	In the process of doing that, he is now in a critique of duality.
1:38.3	A critique of duality is going on. That's what we saw in the last class. Critique of duality means he is
1:47.6	criticizing the dualistic philosophies, the dualistic teachings which hold that
1:55.0	ultimately dualism is right. Dualism I mean by this I mean, God is different, you are
2:00.2	different, the world is different different the way it appears to be
2:02.9	This is the ultimate truth
2:05.1	So those philosophies and there were many of those teachers
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